Jedediah Hyde Lathrop (1806-1889)
Coal Baron & Navy Agent, of "Huntington" Elmhurst, Illinois
He was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and went to New York in early adulthood where he engaged in the lumber trade before being appointed Collector of Customs at the Port of Buffalo. From there he went to Virginia where he went into banking and operated several extensive coal mines which were then the largest and most important in the United States. During President Zachary Taylor's administration he was appointed Navy Agent at Washington D.C. In 1865, he came to Illinois and settled at Elmhurst where he built "Huntington". In 1843 in Virginia, he married Mariana, daughter of State Senator Daniel Bryan and his wife, Mary Barbour, sister of Governor James Barbour. They had four children who survived to adulthood.
